On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joel Finlinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:44 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: >> > Too bad time machine doesn't work over the network. Seriously, what were >> > they thinking? >> >> I thought it could if you bought special hardware from Apple. Wasn't >> that one of the features of their latest access point or something? >> >> -- > > > http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html > Pick a disk. Any disk. > > You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive > connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also > back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard > Server, or Xsan storage devices.
Doesn't even have to be HFS+ in all truth, it just has to be shared via AFP (netatalk + avahi). I have some machines at home synched to my linux box Here's an example http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/ You can also use the airport extreme to host a disk (which shares it the same way), or the time machine product if you want to buy more apple :) It is harder to do a bare-metal restore from a remote share like this, but you can always just copy the individual machines backup image to a portable drive when you need to do that. -- Jayce^ The Cloud is my Platform ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
